Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/Culture Medicine and Gender (Spring 2020)

This course introduces students to the thoroughgoing role of medical language, labels, and concepts in the social, political, and cultural classifications and control of women and people of color, with a primary geographic focus of the United States, with some consideration of transnational and geopolitical repercussions. Also, as a disability studies minor course, we will study and learn to apply a disability studies approach as we read a range of texts, from political theory and historical analysis to personal narrative, art, film, and literature concerned with the power and control that the medical realm might impose on certain bodies.

Thus, we will be collaboratively choosing 6-7 wikipedia pages to improve upon/develop, relating to topics covered in greater depth in our course.

Week 3
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 5
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Articles from last year's 239 class:

Mental disorders and gender

Race and health in the United States

Chronic condition

Transgenerational trauma

Gender discrimination in the medical profession

Ableism

Environmental racism

Bodymind

Week 6
Don't neglect the existing sources in your chosen articles -- they can serve as springboards.

Week 7
History

LGBT+ Studies

Medicine

Women's Studies

Week 8
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 10
Guiding framework

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 11
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 12
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 13
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 16
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.